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Recent studies have shown that graph neural networks have achieved outstanding performance in predicting PPIS. However, these studies often neglect the modeling of information at different scales in the graph and the symmetry of protein molecules within three-dimensional space.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In response to this gap, this article proposes the MEG-PPIS approach, a PPIS prediction method based on multi-scale graph information and E(n) equivariant graph neural network (EGNN). There are two channels in MEG-PPIS: the original graph and the subgraph obtained by graph pooling. The model can iteratively update the features of the original graph and subgraph through the weight-sharing EGNN. Subsequently, the max-pooling operation aggregates the updated features of the original graph and subgraph. Ultimately, the model feeds node features into the prediction layer to obtain prediction results. Comparative assessments against other methods on benchmark datasets reveal that MEG-PPIS achieves optimal performance across all evaluation metrics and gets the fastest runtime. 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